The moment I learned to talk, my father taught me to be a gentle and noble person.He put me on the path of the knight, and followed through each path of my life."*%&#* remember to follow the code of conduct of a noble person, save the weak and annhilate the evil."I followed through his teaching all the way until.

Until The moment I saw her.

It was that day, that I became everything my father hated. And my fate got sealed in stone.

And as I closed my eyes for eternity after 30years, I saw the wheels of fate move again. "History will repeat itself, and you can't stop it."

While riding a bus on her way to a certain stronghold, Mirel Maxwell, a respective soldier and a sword-nut, encounter a group of bandits that is stopping the trip. While intending to fight them, the man she was conversing earlier jump out and demonstrating the unique sword style he create - The Making Blade. Enchanted by it, she decided to followed him as her master, while they're travelling all over the place for an adventure.

Drake was a normal - well, at least seemingly so - man in his twenties hunting work. One day however he awakened his powers, which came with the bonus of an ages old geezer...

After learning the world called Myriad Domains from him and disgusted and tired of the world and life he is living, he decides to go there performing an ancient ritual with the souls of thousand evil men.

He is reborn as Alexander with a new family. His great ambition fueling him, he starts a new adventure to carve out an immortal legend that will be told for countless aeons, the Monarch of Myriad Domains!

Warning : English is not my mother language so please expect mistakes. Especially with forgetting to put "the"... I really do not understand this "the"!

In a small country, in a small state, in a small village lived a boy who had a ridiculously long and weird name so everyone from his village would call him Selly. He was a hardworking kid. Born unlucky, he worked hard to stay alive in this world. Even without a familiar, he managed to get by doing odd-jobs and work no one else wanted to do, but now he has a familiar, and a very special one at that. Follow Selly and his familiar as they go about doing whatever they want, not really having a goal. Well, sometimes they stop to help out a damsel in distress or defeat some pirates. But that''s only for the money! Otherwise, they're doing whatever they want...

Dellam Naris one of the most talented mages and alchemists in generations has just discovered a new way to combine these fields. Leading him on a path toward unimaginable power. The only real obstacles are his colleagues and superiors within West Crescent’s mage's association. Having viewed his work as pointless at best and in some cases blasphemous at worst. They shunned him for diverging so drastically from the traditional teachings of magic and alchemy which have been systematized for millennia.

This all changes however when news of his exploits begin to spread and the academic authority of the association is called into question. He has been healing diseases thought to be incurable by anything but divine intervention, altering wildelife and plants and some say he has even been dabbling in soul magic. A field of study outlawed nearly 400 years ago when it was brought to this world by a demi lich who broke into the world of Ahura and created a necropolis on the central continent. It took the combined might of 12 nations and the emergency summoning of entities from other worlds to stop the damn thing.

If these claims hold true then he may have stumbled on to secrets the association cannot afford to lose control of and the association may be forced to enact a punishment far worse than death.

A child whose city is destroyed was fated to survive an invasion from a foreign country. A bounty hunter which happened to be scavenging the remains of the city adopted him and trained him along with his children. The boy, Ryousuke, a half-blood went on a journey to find his origins. But, a war started and he will eventually be forced to participate due to his talents and lineage.

A story of a child favored by gods, will he find his purpose or will he fall on the battlefield?

A beautiful maiden who lost her way on a street in Tokyo as she found herself lying inside a telephone box without anything left - no belongings nor memories. A man came up to her and help her away from that state as she and the man solves mysteries connected to the memories of the lost maiden.

Watch as our hero treks this wonderful world known as "Imagination". Through lands of candy, forests of the Jurassic period, and lakes of fire; in this world, anything you can imagine can exist. Well, a hero if he can survive this crazy world anyways. You'd be surprised how scary a T-Rex can be when you meet it face to face. Oh yeah, did I mention magic and swords? Let's see if our upcoming hero can keep his sanity in this crazy world!

Note: This is an amateur work. This is my first story and this book is for practice. This does not mean I will not finish this book or that I am not serious about it though. This story has been on my mind for a while now, but it just hasn't been fleshed out enough in my opinion. This work will be what I use to try and hone my writing skills and I would love it if you could give me input to help me improve.

My Self Reflection (My weaknesses I think I might have):

-POV switching

-Organization

-Comedy might be forced. I try to put my own style of humor into it, but it might not fit that well. I'm sort of an eccentric person and I want to make my characters to be like that because in a world of imagination I think it fits.

A sanctuary was built by the United Nations—funded by the remaining survivors and government of the World after the Third World Nuclear War. After all what humanity learned about the last war that took almost one third of the world population, is war still inevitable?

Dreams of Utica updates several folktales, in particular Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, in a post apocalyptic Africa evoking Mad Max, and a cyberpunk world. The book’s structure is based on that of Homer’s Odyssey, and uses its episodes (e.g. dangers and monsters encountered, sailing in an unknown land, relationship to otherness.) The question of identity is challenged, what makes us still humans, when the machine and the virtual reality are more and more present. The topics are close to those in Blade Runer, Ghost in the Shell, Matrix, etc.

Alyss, nicknamed the Dreamer, was a thirteen-year-old teenage girl, who lived in the Ghetto of Zone 3, a slum crowded with refugees of the Last War. The survivors had been waiting for an airlift to Utica, a distant city founded by the mythical Proteus. Alyss was prone to visions that allowed her to anticipate certain hazardous situations. During the Revelation ceremony, besides the mandatory biochips that gave access to citizenship, an extra biochip was grafted in her brain, which amplified her dreamlike abilities. However, she had to hide her gift. Through her visions, she experienced distorted perceptions of past and forthcoming events.

I am currently working on a version in English for Royal Road Legends! Thanks for your help!

Initially published in French by l'Homme Sans Nom (the Man with No Name!) in 2016: http://www.editions-hsn.fr/utica

Complete digital version available on every platforms (ePub and Kindle) https://roznarho.com/2016/11/21/reves-dutica-en-numerique/ (for a short list)

Soft cover book by your favorite book seller (French-speaking Europe).

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